thanks for the tip and the compliment, and the only reason i dont use GIM or adobe illustartor is because if i do a good job in paint i get to hear people say "wow you made that in paint?!"
I used to do a lot of drawing in paint myself a while back, and the whole "wow you did THAT with paint??" reaction is always heart-warming. However, what I found when I veered towards the world of photoshop, gimp and other more advanced graphics editors, I found that what I could do was suddenly very limited. Not limited by my talent, since I could do "amaising" things with just MS paint, but by my set of skills with digital tools.
Bitmap is all but dead as a format for pictures, the files are incredibly large, and alltogether it's slowly getting phased out of use... People will say htings like "wow that's amaising... for paint" about our art, but not many will take it seriously, I'm afraid...
(bu the way I gave up on drawing with GIMP after a while, didn't have the cash for a tablet, and ended up going to more traditional things involving paper and pencils..

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